Gabrie van Zanten wrote: > Sometimes I see a program (I think) but I can't run it, even though I'm > using root. Like this one: > -rwxr-xr-x XF86_S3V 2043768 > > I thought I could at least run it and get an error, but Linux says: command > not found. I had this too when installing fortune. After logging in as a > user I could run fortune, but not before as root (fortune was in the users > PATH, does it matter?).
the root user does not have /usr/games (the location of 'fortune') or "." (the current directory) in it's PATH environment variable. to use them, you have to state the path explicitly. e.g.: /usr/games/fortune or ./XF86_S3V -brad -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
